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What is the Development Language Used by SAP HANA?

ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is an inbuilt default programming language used for all SAP applications. ABAP is a high-level language used in the SAP environment Most of the SAP HANA software stack has been written in C++. The ABAP kernel is implemented in C++.

When the SAP HANA objects are compiled they turn into the C++ code. This is one of the primary reasons for the high-speed of SAP HANA. SAP implements its own applications by using ABAP on the NetWeaver platform. The SAP users can modify the SAP application functionalities and can also build new applications on the NetWeaver ABAP platform.

ABAP was first introduced as a report-generation tool in the 1980’s for all SAP products. Almost all the other core SAP systems ECC, CRM, PLM, SRM are written in ABAP. It is the only language that is nearest to the Object Oriented Paradigm (OOP) Concepts.

SAP systems have proved to be the best ERP systems of all times hands down. But what language is SAP written. SAP systems uses ABAP programming language for all its developments. It runs in the SAP ABAP runtime environment.

SAP programming language is ABAP which is an event-driven programming language. All the executions depend on the actions of the users and system events. Due to its advanced functionality, it is known as fourth generation language as it completely runs as per the user.